“A thing therefore never returns to nothing.”
Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.
Lucretius (-94–-55 BC) Roman poet and philosopher
Book I, line 248 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
“The poet…nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.”
Page 103.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
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